I have a question about How do I display the date in the Tray (next to the clock)?:

The date doesn't always appear when I mouseover the clock/time display. I've noticed this happens almost always when Outlook Express is the active window, and also if I'm visiting a message board style forum. Other than that, I haven't noticed any patterns to the appearance or non-appearance of the date upon mouseover of the clock/time display. It just sometimes displays and sometimes doesn't (and I do wait many seconds b4 giving up). Could this mouseover feature be somehow suppressed for certain programs and/or websites? I know that double-clicking the clock/time display brings up a calendar. And that's what I do if the mouseover doesn't work. But it would be so nice if the mouseover worked all the time. Is there anything I can check which might be broken, or maybe something just needs to be tweaked? Thank you very much. Brynn

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This might be happenening because the tooltip showing the date is actually hidden 
behind the taskbar - one of XP's many quirks !

However, if that's it, there's a cure - run Tweak number 321 (left hand column) in 
Kelly's_Korner

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Martin, that does not fix the problem.

It's a long standing problem that MS has never fixed, either because they can't or do not feel it's important enough to spend the time on.

Download this program, unzip and run it and your problem is solved: http://mtec89net.com/ftp/FixXPToolTips.zip

Above link no longer good, use this one: http://www.appcheck.net/AppDetails.aspx?Name=FixXPToolTips

You will have to run it when ever the date is hidden behind the taskbar. I placed a copy of FixXPToolTipx.exe on my Quick launch tool bar so a single click on it fixes the problem until it reoccurs.

This was posted by Paulina here: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1120063018?s

Updated link posted by Norm here: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1173785146?s

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Thank you all for your comments. Do I understand correctly, about the program offered in the last reply, that it essentially needs to be run each time I want to see the date? And by putting it in Quick Launch, it can be readily accessed? But what about the program mentioned in the original article? It sounds like it puts the date beside the time? So that it's visible all the time? So is it basically a matter of personal choice, which one to use? Thanks again.

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Thanks Rich. The fix in Kelly's Korner worked for me, but I see that it is not the 
whole cure :-)

This is a good example of a genuine "annoyance" !

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Definately a personal choice thing. As for running the program, you only need to do it when the date doesn't show on mouse over. It shows most of the time for me but when it doesn't, a single click fixes it (tiil the next time). I suspect this is not something that can be fixed easily or MS would already have done so (MS, like many other companies, loves easy fixes :=) ).

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"This is a good example of a genuine "annoyance" !"

Hhooooo, that's the truth!!

Just wanted to say a final THANKS for everyone's help with this issue.

(Picture a jumping smiley/emoticon saying "Thank You"!)

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Hi again,
Oops, after some further searching, I've found several freeware programs which display 
the date, along with the time.  So now I'm wondering more specifically about the 
program "TrayDate" -- does it allow for the date and/or time to be formatted with 
different fonts, size, color, etc.?  Or does it display the date like a Tool Tip? 
 Thanks again :-)

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Here's the best free fix for the hidden tooltips problem. This fixes it for good, 
and requires no intervention after it's installed. It runs as a service and requires 
.NET 2.0, but otherwise has a relatively small footprint.

http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=10

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